Democratic Senator from New Jersey Cory Booker speaks before the Senate Judiciary Committee voted to advance to the Senate floor the nomination of Brett Kavanaugh to be an associate justice of the Supreme Court of the United States, on Capitol Hill in Washington, DC, USA, 28 September 2018. EPA

Newark, NJ – During his rally, President Donald Trump also poked fun at Democratic Sen. Cory Booker of New Jersey, considered a possible challenger to Trump in 2020.

Booker is a former mayor of Newark, the state’s largest city.

Trump told the crowd that Booker “ran Newark, New Jersey into the ground” and asked: “now he wants to be president?”

“What was the moment he said he had?” When the crowd yelled back, “Spartacus,” Trump said: “I don’t think so. I think we take Kirk Douglas in his prime.”

Douglas starred as Spartacus in a movie about the leader of a slave revolt in antiquity.

During Kavanaugh’s initial confirmation hearing before the Judiciary committee on which Booker sits, Booker declared he was having a “Spartacus” moment when he said he was breaking committee rules and releasing documents about Kavanaugh, though the papers had already been cleared for release.